Senior Manager, Digital Strategy

Description

Senior Manager, Digital Strategy

Huntington Bank | Consumer & Regional Banking

The Consumer & Regional Banking Digital Strategy team is responsible for providing strategic and business planning leadership and support across businesses and functions within Consumer & Regional Banking. The Senior Manager, Digital Strategy is a critical leadership role responsible for translating digital strategy into actionable portfolio decisions, ensuring the segment's digital investments arewell defined, strategically aligned,sequenced,andvaluedto maximize business impact.

This role leads across functional teamand serves as a central orchestrator between business leaders, product managers, technology, and finance. The Senior Manager will drive near-term portfolio management decisions—recommending roadmap execution sequencing and facilitating executive decision forums to secure alignment—while shaping mid-range strategic planning informed by continuous monitoring of the competitive and digital landscape. The role also owns portfolio value forecasting, business case development, and benefit realization tracking in partnership with stakeholders, ensuring adherence to common standards that enable consistent, well-informed decision-making.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead near-term digital portfolio management, developing and recommending roadmap execution sequencing based on value, capacity, dependencies, and strategic priorities

• Design and facilitate executive decision forums—collaborating with digital operations for governance and reporting,framing trade-offs, and driving alignment on portfolio priorities and investment decisions

• Own mid-range (1–3 year) digital strategic planning, connecting enterprise strategy to executable digital roadmaps for Consumer & Regional Banking

• Continuously monitor competitor moves, fintech developments, and consumer banking trends; synthesize implications into actionable perspectives for senior leadership

• Manage portfolio value forecasting, including aggregation of expected benefits across initiatives and scenario analysis to inform prioritization

• Oversee development of business cases in partnership with business, product, finance, and technology stakeholders, ensuring adherence to common standards and methodologies

• Establish and manage benefit realization tracking, holding initiative owners accountable to committed outcomes and surfacing variances proactively

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of digital strategy managers and analysts, building internal strategic consultancy capabilities

• Support senior strategy leadership in providing strategic guidance to business and function leaders across Consumer & Regional Banking

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree

• 7+ years of experience in financial services, management consulting, or corporate strategy, including 2+ yearsof people leadership experience

Core Competencies

• Commercially-oriented strategic thinker –Passion for understanding how digital investments create business value, with the ability to identify data to model, forecast, and test hypotheses

• Portfolio and decision management expertise –Skilled at structuring complex investment trade-offs, sequencing roadmaps, and designing governance forums that produce clear, timely decisions

• Storyteller with expert presentation abilities –Natural ability to build professional, concise presentations that tell clear, compelling stories to drive alignment with executive audiences

• Financial acumen –Comfortable building and pressure-testing business cases, value forecasts, and benefit realization models in partnership with finance

• Independent operator and people leader –Ability to take executive-level questions and proactively develop a perspective, while coaching a team to do the same

• Highly organized –Uses tools and systems to manage a multi-initiative portfolio with varying deadlines such that progress can always be articulated, and risks or delays are proactively identified and communicated

Preferences

• Financial Services industry experience –Experience working for a bank or consulting firm serving financial institutions; specific experience in consumer or retail banking a plus

• Experience with digital…